Artificial intelligence joins the fossil hunt
It must be here somewhere (Image: Richard Austin/Rex Features) THE traditional image of the fossil-hunting palaeontologist – traipsing across parched badlands armed with nothing but hand tools and a sharp eye – may be in for an overhaul. Artificially intelligent software that scans satellite images of potential dig sites could greatly increase the number of fossils unearthed. Success in finding bo
Face recognition technology fails to find UK rioters
Police want to identify these men (Image: Metropolitan Police/AP/PA) THE response was as aggressive and swift as the riots themselves. Within a few hours of the worst of last week’s looting across London and other English cities, attempts were being made to use CCTV footage to track down the individuals who had plundered shops and destroyed buildings. But those raised on a diet of TV police dramas
Sound of sex could alert internet porn filter
[Caption censored] (Image: Yuri Arcurs Media/SuperFusion/SuperStock) It doesn’t take much imagination to guess what a porn video sounds like. It’s more impressive, however, when it’s a computer that’s doing the guessing. Automatic image-analysis systems are already used to catch unwanted pornography before it reaches a computer monitor. But they often struggle to distinguish between indecent image
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